Word Salad? No, Word Shrapnel
8/3/18 College Fix:
In her paper, “‘How to Write as Felt’: Touching Transmaterialities and More-Than-Human Intimacies,” published online in late July by Studies in Philosophy and Education, Springgay suggests that felt, a “dense material of permanently interlocking fibers,” can be linked to racism and capitalism.
“[T]his paper addresses ‘the problem of education’ that is predicated on cis-heteronormative White supremacist settler colonial logics that assume knowledge enters from an outside, that is predicated on progress, and that regulates and violently disavows particular bodies,” it states.
“Felting as a posthuman proposition demands that we stop thinking broadly about … education. Instead we need to consider intimate transmaterial touching relations that do not intensify settler colonial mastery over human and nonhuman life,” the paper adds.
Can you decode that?
Easy to decode that gobbledygook. Total academic bullsh--. Typically it means whatever they wish it to mean. An as mathematician I can confidently assert that that since it can mean anything it truly means nothing. The proof is obvious to the causal observer as my professors told me frequently.
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